TITLE

THE SOLID EARTH

GROUP

1º ESO

RESOURCES

AND MATERIALS

-Activity Book.

-Schemes on the blackboard (rocks origin).

-Activities using internet, specially in this subject website

http://www.ieslosremedios.org/~pablo/webpablo/web1eso/5solidearth/guiasolidearth.html

-Collection of different types of sand.

-Stereomicroscope.

-Collection of minerals and rocks at the laboratory.

-Dichotomic key.

-Decorative rocks at the streets near to the school.

-Presentations about landscapes.

-Landscapes around Ubrique.

-Rock collection made by the students.

-Educational films.

TEACHERS

Content teacher

Pablo Acosta Robles

English teacher

Josefina Herrera Cides y Mª Carmen Chilla Castro

Language assistant

Lorna Geddie y Eleonora Scheltus

AIMS

English

-Describing rocks and mineral in English (colour, shape, shining, hardness...)

-Describin landscaps in English (relief, vegetation, courses and masses of water, artificial elements).

-Learning to express the location of an object using at the top, at the bottom, on the left, on the right, in the middle, above, below, in the foreground, in the background

-Learning specific terminology: key, features, rocks, minerals, shiny, dull, shape, hard, soft, density, relief, plain, mountain, valley, slope, flat, wood, tree, bush, grass, meadow.

Content

-Handling properly a stereomicroscope and noting down your observations.

-Use correctly a dichotomic key.

-Describing the features of any rocks.

-Distinguish rocks from minerals.

-After looking some rocks, pupils have to explain if they are sedimentary, metamorphic, volcanic or plutonic.

-Compare plutonic rocks and volcanic rocks.

-Explain the processes which give rise to the metamorphic rocks.

-Relate different lanscapes to different rocks. Explain how they have influenced on relief and vegetation.

-Describe the landscape around Ubrique.

-List useful properties in order to identificate minerals.

-Describe a mineral attending to its properties.

-Explain how to get the hardness and the density of a mineral.

-Discover why rocks and minerals are so important and to value them as non-renewable resources.

ACTIVITIES/

TEACHING TECHNIQUES

-Looking at sands using a stereomicroscope.

-Using dichotomic keys.

-Studying decorative rocks in the streets.

-Making graphics about the origins of the different types of rocks.

-Completing a comparative chart about rocks.

-Identifying rocks in a virtual laboratory.

-Making a rock collection and making sheet for each one.

-Answering questionnaires.

-Playing a quiz about rocks (true or false).

-Describing pictures of landscapes.

-Drawing landscapes around Ubrique.

-Completing a comparative chart about Ubrique’s landscapes.

-Working as a scientist from the Natural History Museum (in the Internet).

-Looking at some minerals and noting down their characteristics in a chart.

CONTENTS

Concepts

-Rocks: types and origin.

-Rocks and landscapes

-Minerals: concept and properties.

-The use of rocks and minerals.

Procedures

-Observing natural objects, drawing and noting down carefully in a notebook.

-Extract information from charts and graphics.

-Use simple dichotomic keys.

-Get hardness and density of a mineral.

Attitudes

-Value objectivity and accuracy.

-Be interested to understand the world around us.

-Be interested on the origin of different materials we have in our houses.

-Recognise the importance of saving non-renewable materials.

ASSESMENT

-Written tests.

-Activity Book.

-Rock collection.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Visit http://www.ieslosremedios.org/~pablo/webpablo/web1eso/5solidearth/guiasolidearth.html